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Cursor
AI IDE with local and cloud agents, plus a coordinator for shared project context.
- Who it’s for
- Teams that want an agentic coding loop inside the editor, optionally on their network.
- How it runs
- Tool use + multi-step plans, still human-gated per session.
- Runtime
- ide, cloud
- Last ship on file
- Cursor Projects (desk report, Sep 12 2026)
- Limits of this dossier
- Cloud-agent and Projects coverage is vendor documentation plus prior desk reports. Not a benchmark of Cursor vs Claude Code.
Primary sources
Coverage
- Cursor Projects: Coordinator Agent and Shared Context Across Cloud and Local
- Cursor Just Made Its Cloud Agents Run Inside Your Network. The Self-Hosted Machines Launch Is The Enterprise Inflection Point.
- Cursor Cloud Agents Just Became Event-Driven Subscriptions That Monitor PRs, Watch Slack Threads, and Run Scheduled Tasks
- Cursor Composer 2 Just Hit GA. A Multi-Agent Coding IDE That Runs 12 Parallel Sub-Agents, Auto-Fixes Production Incidents While You Sleep, and Why This Is the First AI Tool That Actually Changes How Engineering Teams Hire.